Collected Works of Warren McCulloch

Following the death of Warren McCulloch in 1969, his wife Rook McCulloch assiduously assembled a set of collected works. This exists as four volumes and includes not only Warren’s publications but important contributions from a total of 20 of his collaborators. Unfortunately the collection has not been widely, if at all, distributed because of bankruptcy of the publisher and what may be the only complete copy is held by Warren and Rook’s daughter, Taffy Holland. The original papers have been deposited by Rook with the American Philosophical Society and details can be found at http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/m/mcculloc.pdf.

The collection has been described, without exaggeration, as a “historical gold mine” and it is to be hoped that it can still be made available. The following is a table of contents of the four volumes. Papers that have Warren as sole or joint author have a number in square brackets attached to them – this indicates their place in a bibliography that is part of the Appendix in volume 4. Without the bibliography the numbers are not useful, but have been retained to give an indication of the large number of citations.

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